As of earlier this summer, the stock market has been burning rocket fuel the last couple of years. The S&P 500 has soared by almost 57% from its lowest point in late 2022, while the Dow Jones and Nasdaq are up by around 37% and 77%, respectively, in that time. The TSX has lagged but it’s not a laggard in any…
Category: Dividend Investing
How to Turn the Temperature Up this Summer on your Dividends
Before we jump in my financial results for June, let’s catch up on where I’ve been and what I’ve been doing. This month I kept busy traveling and working remotely in Sofia, Bulgaria and Tirana, Albania. My passive income and front loaded sacrifice has enabled me to dictate the terms on my work and a…
One source of Income? WTF! You’re doing it wrong.
When putting together this post tabulating my February 2024 Dividend income something dawned on me. I already knew this but in writing this post, it stuck out to me like a black eye or sore thumb. If you’re relying on one source of income, you’re doing it wrong. In other words, like most people I…
Whopping 83.2% increase in May Dividends in 3 years
Yes, you read that headline right. Actually, I had to take a second and step back and check the numbers for myself. Since I started this blog, my dividends have been growing at a steady clip thanks to reinvestment of dividends and adding new cash to buy more stocks and index funds. Investors often talk…
Dividend and Total Return Investors are Right and Wrong
There is currently a debate raging online between die hard dividend investors and total return investors. I’m sure this debate has been raging since the dawn of time and will continue indefinitely. There is probably no end in sight but let’s dive in anyways. For those not initiated in the debate, let me provide some…
No April Fools’: How I made nearly $9,000 in Dividends
April 2024 was a huge dividend month for me. While that is worth celebrating, what really deserves celebrating is what the power of investing regularly and often with growing amounts of money over time, can mean for your life. In April, I set off on a 5-month travel adventure. While I’m still working remotely (for…
March Madness: Slam Dunking it with Dividends and Travel
March was another great month for me full of dividends and travel. In fact, it was March Madness. Not the college basketball kind, but the financial kind! Travel Have you read, “Die with Zero” (paid affiliate link), the book by Bill Perkins? A brief summary of the book as provided by Blinkist: Die with Zero…
Ho Ho Ho! My Santa Clause Dividend Gift of $5,874.36
Santa Clause was good to me this past December. Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer and his merry gang of reindeer stopped by my house and Santa squeezed himself down my chimney with a fat dividend cheque for $5,874.36. Needless to say it was a Merry Christmas. On Boxing Day, after spending some time with family,…
My Monster Money Haul for January 2024
This month was a record dividend haul. In other words, it was a monster money haul for me. But first, what good is passive income from dividends, if you can’t create experience dividends from travel with those you love? Travel This month I spent part of it at my vacation property in Mexico. I escaped…
Dividend Update: October 2023
Travel This month I spent a nice two weeks in Europe visiting cities such as Bratislava in Slovakia and Prague, among others. I was spoiled by the warm weather which allowed for several days of shorts and several coffees, meals and beers on outdoor patios in the sun. I only visited 4 cities which allowed…